Easy Christmas Cake Recipe

Easy Christmas Cake Recipe

Ingredients

• recipe for: Melokakaronia Me Smigdali Fenekia
• Serving Size : 3

the cookies:

• 1 cup oil
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup cognac
• 1/4 cup orange juice
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 tablespoons grated orange rind
• 1/2 cup flour
• 2 1/2 cups farina (cream of wheat)
• 1 cup chopped walnuts
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon

the syrup:

• 3/4 cup water
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 cup honey

Method

1. Beat the oil with the sugar for about 1/2 hour
2. Add cognac
3. Add baking soda dissolved in orange juice; add orange rind; mix well.
4. Add flour and farina, and knead very well to blend all into a medium -soft dough
5. Shape the dough into mounded ovals, flat on the bottom, scrape the top lightly with a fork to make shallow grooves.
6. Place on a buttered cookie sheet and bake in preheated 250 F oven for 20 to 30 min Remove from the oven; cool
7. While cookies are cooling, boil water, sugar, and honey together in a saucepan, removing the froth as it rises.
8. Boil about 3 min Dip cold cookies into the warm syrup, using a slotted spoon.
9. Remove carefully and drain.
10. Place on a clean platter and sprinkle with the walnuts.
11. Mix together the cinnamon and sugar, and sprinkle on top.

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